Fibromyalgia Support Group

You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.

Morning Routine

Please tell me I'm not alone. As soon as I wake in the AM the first thing I think of is, "I NEED my MEDICINE!" Before coffee, going to the bathroom or even letting the dogs out. So I throw down my cymbalta, avinza, iron, prempro and a vitamin. Who needs breakfast with all those pills! THEN I can think about starting my day. As iI wait for the pills to kick in, I sip my coffee and pray that I won't need to take anything for breakthrough pain. Sorry if I sound like a whiner, but I am sick to death of this damn FM! Thanks for listening guys, I guess I'm feeling sorry for myself today...:(

i usually wake up thinking how the heck am i gonna make it through this day and i know my boss is half expecting to see my phone show up on her caller id. i wonder how long i can keep up this work thing and am not eligible for SS disability as I quit working for 10 years while I was married. I think I have about 6 years left to get enough quarters in.
I also wake up thinking if I can just make it to the shower....let that hot water steam me awake.
You are not a whiner...that is what we are here for!! (((hugs)))

Mornings for me feel like ive awoke from a ten year coma...
i hurt terribly,dizzy, headache..ya know it...it just never quits..I feel ninety untill 1pm,then i so improve and feel 88 for 2 hrs, untill im back to 90 by dinner time...huggs everyone..

i reach for my oxycontin before anything else. it takes me about .5 hour to reconnect my brain after such deep sleeping that i now get with xyrem. i wake up really dumb. then after a little while i realize i am awake and my husband brings me green tea and a pot of yoghurt. then if i'm well enough i put on my sweats and go to gym for an hour or two. lately i've just been staying in bed. bad flare.

ABOTSD- I see you take Oxycotin. Do you mind ifg I ask why you are prescribed this? I was told that itys a time release pain medicine-and that I could possible get pain relief with it. I know it is basicly oxycodone-and I worry that a doc wont prescribe it to me. I have used hydrocodone &amp; oxycodone for pain from FM-(I was prescribed the pain med for TMJ) &amp; it HELPED releave FM symptoms...I dont know how to tell the doctor this without them turning their nose up. Usually docs turn away from perscribing pain meds so I hear.

Thanks for letting me know I'm truely not alone. I knew I could count on you. I haven't posted for such a long time. I do visit often and like all of you I am happy to have found such a wonderful group of people!

Today is my 25th birthday, to my somewhat lack of surprise I can see already no one really seems to care. I've always been the kinda person to make sure that everyone I Care about feels appreciated and knew somebody had their back. I can count 4 times this year when I Went out of my way to make sure a "friend" felt good on their birthday, especially if they got left hanging. Its early in the...

So my daughter, who will be 30 in a few months, says she thinks she has varicose veins, as she can't figure out what else it could be. Only in one leg, and is so bad it is hard to sleep at night. She is in excellent shape, really exercises a lot, and eats well... not at all overweight. Anyone else have any issues with this? I did find that it can go with PKD. She was reading that there are...

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